Use technology to increase loyalty and productivity in your employees 50
Digital Team-Building Games offers fun, energizing meeting openers, team
activities, and group adventures for business teams, using Twitter, GPS,
Facebook, smartphones, and other technology. The games can be played in-person
or virtually, and range from 5-minute ice-breakers to an epic four-hour
GPS-based adventure. Designed to be lead by managers, facilitators, presenters,
and speakers, the activities help teams and groups get comfortable with
technology, get to know each other better, build trust, improve communication,
and more. No need to be a "techie" to lead these games—they're simple and
well-scripted. Author John Chen is the CEO of Geoteaming, a company that uses
technology and adventure to teach teams how to collaborate.

Advocacy is the pursuit of influencing outcomes that
directly affect people’s lives. This book will guide you through seven actions
on how you can elevate your belief or cause to make a difference in your
community, job, or industry. It is a primer of ways to increase and
strengthen your advocacy efforts. Whether you choose to use these actions as a
basis for easing your way into the political process or for effectively
communicating your cause or beliefs within your social setting, the key to your
success lays within a fresh commitment and further understanding of simple
advocacy tools.

These seven actions guide you through the process of
becoming an effective advocate. You will learn how to better communicate and
gain momentum for your cause or beliefs

One of MPI's Top 10 Best Sellers. Quickly and accurately match your room size with the number of persons you can accommodate in one of seven seating arrangements or with the number of 8 feet x 10 feet exhibit booths. (Both standard and metric measurements displayed.)

In this no-nonsense guide to beating the competition,
Calloway, a branding and competitive positioning consultant with clients like
BMW and IBM, offers hope to companies confronting a constantly changing and
increasingly competitive marketplace. Success, he says, lies in distinguishing
yourself from others and forging emotional connections with customers. Before
you do anything else, Calloway says, you must answer the question, "Who are
you?" unambiguously and with fervor. If your response is vague and uninspiring,
Calloway predicts failure, since a lame answer signals lack of vision, focus and
commitment, elements he considers essential just to be in the running. An
advocate of corporate language that reinforces company identity and motivates
employees, Calloway shuns empty slogans and fashionable buzzwords. He snappily
makes his point by asking what would have happened if Martin Luther King Jr. had
proclaimed, "I Have a Strategic Plan" instead of "I Have a Dream." In no
uncertain terms, he asserts companies must pay close attention to each customer
and focus marketing on individuals, not abstract demographics. Anyone spacing
out while Calloway exhorts innovation and hard work to connect with the customer
base in ways that Starbucks, Southwest Airlines and others have will hop to when
he has a hypothetical customer ask, "Why should I do business with you?" A
company without a compelling answer, Calloway believes, will see the customer go
elsewhere. But Calloway emphasizes triumph is possible with disciplined
application and provides case studies, interviews and anecdotes illustrating
successful approaches for earning customer loyalty and for setting businesses
apart in their fields.

While there are many reasons to incorporate sustainable practices into
meetings and events, including saving costs and resources, protecting the
environment, improving social issues, doing business more efficiently and
effectively and attracting new audiences, the number one reason to go green is
to do business better. The book is divided into three parts, which reflect
defining principles of greener meetings and events: Innovation, Conservation,
and Education. This book broadly explores sustainable management in the
hospitality, tourism, conference and exhibition, and meeting and event
industries, as well as countless smaller industries that include arts and music
festivals and tour operators. Readers who are studying in, working in, or even
just interested in these industries will reap innumerable benefits from the
exciting journey ahead of them in The Complete Guide to Greener Meetings and
Events.

Renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present
compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another's tastes, health,
wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social networks
form and how they operate.

New edition of a text for students of the hotel-convention business.
Coverage includes insight into analyzing hotel property to determine which
segments of the market to approach, selling to the people who organize
conventions in various types of organizations, handling negotiations and letters
of agreement, and dealing with all the vital convention
services.

The hottest trend spotter in North America reveals powerful strategies
for thriving in any economic climate. Did you know that Hewlett/Packard,
Disney, Hyatt, MTV, CNN, Microsoft, Burger King, and GE all started during
periods of economic recession? Periods of uncertainty fuel tremendous
opportunity, but the deck gets reshuffled and the rules of the game get changed.
Exploiting Chaos is the ultimate business survival guide for all those looking
to change the world. Topics include: Sparking a revolution, trend hunting,
adaptive innovation and infectious messaging.

This new model of human interaction has been chosen by Google
to train the entire company worldwide (30,000 employees), is the #1 book for
your career chosen by The Wall Street Journal’s website, and is labeled
“phenomenal” by Lawyers’ Weekly and “brilliant” by Liza Oz of the Oprah
network.

Based on more than 20 years of research and practice among
30,000 people in 45 countries, Getting More concludes that finding and valuing
the other party’s emotions and perceptions creates far more value than the
conventional wisdom of power and logic. It is intended to provide better
agreements for everyone no matter what they negotiate – from jobs to kids to
billion dollar deals to shopping.

The book, a New York Times
bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal business best seller, is based
on Professor Stuart Diamond’s award-winning course at the Wharton Business
School, where the course has been the most popular over 13 years. It challenges
the conventional wisdom on every page, from “win-win” to BATNA to rationality to
the use of power. Companies have made billions of dollars so far using his new
model and parents have gotten their 4-year-olds to willingly brush their teeth
and go to bed.

Prof. Diamond draws from his experience as a Pulitzer
Prize winning journalist at The New York Times, Harvard-trained attorney,
Wharton MBA, U.N. Consultant in many countries and manager and executive in many
sectors, including technology, agriculture, medical services, finance, energy
and aviation. “The ROI from reading Getting More will make it the best
investment you make this year,” says Rhys Dekle, the business development head
of the Microsoft Games division, which produces X-Box. He added that the book
was his team’s best investment of the year too. The model was also used to
quickly solve the 2008 Hollywood Writer’s Strike.

The advice is
addressed through the insightful stories of more than 400 people who have used
Prof. Diamond’s tools with great success: A 20% savings on an item already on
sale. An extra $300 million profit in a business. A woman from India getting out
of her own arranged marriage. Better relationships with the family, including
teenagers. Raises at work. Better jobs. Dealing with emotional situations.
Meeting one’s goals. Finding better things to trade. Solving cultural and
political problems, sports conflicts, and ordinary arguments.

The book is
intended to be used in any situation. The most common response is “life
changing”, beginning on page one. “The most inspirational book I have read this
year” said David Simon, an attorney in San Francisco, CA. “This book can change
the world,” says Craig Silverman, Investment Advisor, Long Island,
NY

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